“It’s a familiar story: You’re writing a paper for class and you need to cite articles from peer-reviewed journals. Eventually, you find an article that looks good — maybe via a search engine, a footnote from another source, or a reference in an index. You search the Web for the full text, but you can’t get past the abstract. You look on your library’s Web site but they don’t have a subscription. You’re stuck. Maybe that article would have been a major source for your work — you’ll never know. You don’t have access.”
from The Right To Research: The Student Guide to Opening Access to Scholarship

How often have you encountered this frustrating scenario? Would you like to do something about it?

Learn more about what open access means in this special guide for students published by SPARC, and then then take action with these 5 practical steps.

Students have the right to research!